Color
#ae5bad
#ae5badrgb(174, 91, 173)hsl(301, 34%, 52%)oklch(0.599 0.15 327.7)Colors that go with #ae5bad
Sea Green, Dark Cyan and Charcoal lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #ae5bad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
split-complementshippedDark Cyan is a split-complement of #ae5bad: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ae5bad: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae5bad: 3 real palettes, including Hasbro's brand system and Peacock, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #ae5bad: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Copper #b87333
triadicCopper completes a triad with #ae5bad — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ae5bad in Klarna US's brand system, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedMidnight Luxe puts Champagne beside #ae5bad, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #ae5bad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae5bad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.9:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae5bad as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#ae5bad reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ae5bad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae5bad-c19fbc-93cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md